Blood On The Altar :In Search of a Serial Killer by Tobias Jones
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Category: TRUE CRIME
One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza, Italy. Shortly before her disappearance, Elisa had met Danilo Restivo, a strange local boy with a fetish for cutting women's hair on the back of buses. Elisa's family is convinced that Re ...Show more
The Lost Boy by Duncan Staff
22.95 AUD
Category: TRUE CRIME
A series of child-murders that took place in Yorkshire in the 1960s shocked and scandalised the country. The two people responsible, Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, were tried in a sensational case and have become notorious as the human face of evil. It is a story that has captivated for forty years. Four c ...Show more
Secrets in the Cellar: The True Story of the Austrian Incest Case That Shocked the World by John Glatt
15.99 AUD
Category: TRUE CRIME
Josef Fritzl was a 73-year-old retired engineer in Austria. He seemed to be living a normal life with his wife, Rosemarie, and their family--though one daughter, Elisabeth, had decades earlier been "lost" to a religious cult. Throughout the years, three of Elisabeth's children mysteriously appeared on t ...Show more
In Cold Blood - A True Account of a Multiple Murder And Its Consequences by Truman Capote
19.99 AUD
Category: TRUE CRIME | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: very good
'Dick became convinced that Perry was that rarity, 'a natural killer'- absolutely sane, but conscienceless, and capable of dealing, with or without motive, the coldest-blooded deathblows' On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, a wealthy farmer, his wife and their two young children ...Show more
The Snowden Files: The True Inside Story on the World's Most Wanted Man by Luke Harding
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Category: TRUE CRIME | Reading Level: very good
It began with an unsigned email: "I am a senior member of the intelligence community". What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach ever, brought about by one extraordinary man. The consequences have shaken the leaders of nations worldwide, from Obama to Cameron, to the presidents of Brazi ...Show more
Mammoth Book of Prison Breaks by Paul Simpson
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Category: TRUE CRIME | Series: Mammoth Books | Reading Level: very good
True stories of prison breaks including those of Frank Abagnale, whose story is told in Catch Me If You Can; Henri Charriere who claimed to have escaped from the supposedly inescapable Devil's Island - the true story as opposed to his questionable memoir, Papillon; Bud Day, said to be the only US servic ...Show more
Boganaire: the rise and fall of Nathan Tinkler by Paddy Manning
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Category: TRUE CRIME | Reading Level: very good
Hunter Valley electrician Nathan Tinkler borrowed big to turn a fortune from a speculative coal play, bursting onto the rich list in 2008 and quickly becoming Australia's youngest billionaire at the age of 35. Tinkler was emblem of both Australia's new aspirational classes and its once-in-a-generation r ...Show more
Presumed Guilty by Bret Christian
29.95 AUD
Category: TRUE CRIME
At the centre of this in-depth and often chilling book is the tragic murder, in 1959, of twenty-twoyear- old Perth woman Jillian Brewer, and the mostly inconceivable wrongful arrest and conviction of a young deaf man, Darryl Beamish, for the act. Charting in extraordinary detail the procedural errors, f ...Show more
PORTRAIT OF A KILLER: JACK THE RIPPER CASE CLOSED by CORNWELL PATRICIA
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Category: TRUE CRIME